Ef­forts to com­bat gun traf­fick­ing took cen­tre stage yes­ter­day as law en­force­ment pro­fes­sion­als from 11 coun­tries gath­ered at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel for a re­gion­al work­shop aimed at strength­en­ing in­tel­li­gence-shar­ing and col­lab­o­ra­tion on il­le­gal arms smug­gling.

The fo­rum, or­gan­ised by the In­ter­na­tion­al Law En­force­ment Acad­e­my (ILEA), San Sal­vador, was fa­cil­i­tat­ed in part by of­fi­cials from the Bu­reau of Al­co­hol, To­bac­co, Firearms and Ex­plo­sives (ATF) and the Cari­com Im­ple­men­ta­tion Agency for Crime and Se­cu­ri­ty (IM­PACS).

ILEA di­rec­tor Di­mas Jaen said the flu­id na­ture of transna­tion­al gun traf­fick­ing de­mands co­or­di­nat­ed re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al re­spons­es.